kalliista

Kalliista is the elative singular form of the Finnish adjective kallis, meaning expensive. In Finnish, adjectives inflect to match the noun they modify, including case. When the noun is in the elative case, the adjective takes the corresponding elative ending, which for this adjective yields kalliista.

Kalliista typically appears before a noun in the elative case, as in phrases such as kalliista autosta (from an expensive car) or kalliista asunnosta (from an expensive apartment). The form is used regardless of gender and number, with the noun’s case driving the ending rather than any fixed gender agreement.

The elative form is used to express origin, source, or movement away from something. In practice, kalliista is most often encountered in sentences that discuss where something comes from or the relationship to the cost of the described item, for example in contexts like kalliista tarjouksesta (from an expensive offer) or kalliista vaihtoehdosta (from an expensive option). It can also appear in figurative uses where “expensive” describes the nature or quality of the referenced noun.

Etymology-wise, kallis is a standard Finnish adjective meaning expensive, and kalliista is simply its grammatical inflection to the elative case. The form itself has no independent meaning beyond indicating that the described noun is associated with expense and that the clause relates to origin or source.

In summary, kalliista is a specific inflected form used in Finnish grammar to connect an expensive noun with the elative case, signaling origin, source, or movement from that noun.